The Plateau Man
Revolt of the Mercenaries
In this drama, a widowed duchess finds herself drawn to leader of a mercenary band. The cavalier leader offers to save her from her avaricious, land-grabbing neighbor, but then suddenly…
Two Rode Together
The Littlest Warrior
After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mother dies, they are sold…
The Inquisit Visit
Franken-Stymied
The Hired Gun
Three on a Spree
The Colossus of Rhodes
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician…
Dentist on the Job
Amelie or The Time to Love
The vagaries of love are often tragic, as Amelie ou le Temps d’Aimer seems to say. Directed by Michel Drach in his second try at a feature-length film, the well-wrought…
Goliath Against the Giants
Muscleman fights sea monsters and Amazon warriors, then returns home to find a race of giants living in a valley, into which fellow countrymen are being thrown as punishment for…
The Human Pyramid
Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a “what if” question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise their own characters and situations.
Enraptured
Two Living, One Dead
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and…
The Seven Revenges
Rival Mongol chiefs battle for leadership of the tribe.
Alba Regia
Gold Of The Seven Saints
Fur-trapping partners Clint Walker and Roger Moore stumble across a cache of gold, but their discovery quickly attracts every greedy villain in the territory. Directed by Gordon Douglas, this 1961…
The Greatest Civil War on Earth
A Cantonese tailor by the name of Cheung (Leung Sing Po) crosses swords with a tailor from Northern China, Li Si Bao (Liu Enjia) over issues of a cultural, material,…
Brutality in Stone
In his experimental short film “BrutalitĂ€t in Stein” (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime’s politics of…